page_title: Muffie Cabot
section_title: Wentworth and Brandon eras
hierarchical_section_title: Muffie Cabot / Career and marriages / Wentworth and Brandon eras
caption_attribution_description: English: Muffie Brandon Cabot, social secretary in the Reagan administration, 1981 to 1983. Cabot speaks with First Lady Nancy Reagan on the State Floor Balcony. May 13, 1981.
context_page_description: Mabel "Muffie" Wentworth Brandon Cabot is an American heiress and socialite. During the 1980s she served as social secretary to Nancy Reagan. She is the mother of Ali Wentworth, an actress who appeared on the sketch comedy In Living Color and who is the wife of George Stephanopoulos.
context_section_description: Cabot's first husband was Eric Wentworth, a correspondent for The Washington Post. The couple divorced in 1964. After divorce, Cabot remained in residence at the pair's Embassy Row home now known as Whitehaven. In 1970 she married British national Henry Brandon, a longtime Washington correspondent for The Sunday Times once known as "the most powerful foreign correspondent in the USA". During this period the couple were known for hosting parties that were the highlight of the Washington social scene.
  Despite being a lifelong Democrat and personal friend of the Kennedy family, she was appointed social secretary to fellow Smith College alumna Nancy Reagan in 1981, serving the First Lady until 1985. She went on to sit on the boards of trustees of the Phillips Collection and the Eureka Foundation, and served as president of the Washington office of the public relations firm of Rogers & Cowan.
caption: Muffie Brandon (left) speaks with First Lady Nancy Reagan on the White House state floor balcony on May 13, 1981.
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